Come on, you guys, go put in your Summer Mix nominations.
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Happy Birthday–June 14
Charlie Buffinton (1861)
Harvey Watkins (1869)
Charles Barrett (1871)
Don Newcombe (1926)
Jim Constable (1933)
Bill Fahey (1950)
Greg Brock (1957)
Mike Laga (1960)
George Tsamis (1967)
Peter Munro (1975)
Michael Hollimon (1982)
Hector Neris (1989)
I wonder if Charlie Buffinton had a similar problem to Ty Wigginton, with people constantly calling him "Buffington".
Harvey Watkins managed the New York Giants for 35 games in 1895. Most of his career was spent managing the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.
Charles Barrett was a long-time scout, mostly working for whatever team was employing Branch Rickey.
2023 Game Log 67 – Brewers at Twins
Time for my semi-annual, why does MLB hate money and schedule the Brewers for a two-game mid-week series when a weekend series would guarantee near capacity crowds screed. Whew, I feel better already.
Brewers season similar to Twins in that they play in a crappy division yet only find themselves 2 games over .500. They are especially feeling a little down after being swept by the lowly A's this past weekend. Corbin Burnes on the mound for the Brewers. He's considered their ace I guess but has been pretty humdrum in 2023. His one strikeout per inning may cause issues for the strikeout prone Twins however.
Pablo Lopez up for the Twins and we all would like to see the April version of Lopez, not the May version, especially given that Louis Arraez is still tearing it up it in the National League. Lopez pitched really well against the Rays last week in a losing effort. Hopefully he can continue to pitch like that and the Twins bats can come alive.
Looks like a gorgeous night for some baseball. First pitch at 6:40p.
Minor Details: Games of June 12
FCL PIRATES 9, FCL TWINS 3 AT TWINS
Josiah Sightler hit a two-run homer in the first and the Pirates led 7-0 after four.
The Twins had three hits, all singles.
Starter Cesar Lares pitched 3.2 innings, allowing seven runs (six earned) on eight hits and a walk and striking out four.
Juan Mercedes struck out five in three shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk.
DSL MARINERS 8, DSL TWINS 0 AT TWINS
The Mariners opened the scoring with five in the third.
Dameury Pena was 2-for-4.
Ledwin Taveras pitched four innings, allowing seven runs (six earned) on six hits and two walks and striking out eleven.
Eduardo Soriano pitched three innings, giving up one run on two hits and a walk and striking out four.
Eider Machuca struck out four in two shutout innings, giving up a walk.
Twins pitchers struck out nineteen Mariners.
TODAY'S TILTS
10:00 DSL Twins at DSL Astros Orange
11:00 FCL Twins at FCL Braves
5:30 Fort Myers (C. J. Culpepper, 2-3, 2.55) at Bradenton
5:35 St. Paul (Aaron Sanchez, 3-4, 4.17) at Louisville
6:30 Wichita (Travis Adams, 1-5, 6.55) at Midland
6:35 South Bend at Cedar Rapids (Mike Paredes, 2-1, 2.49)
Dead Sara – Weatherman
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June 13, 2023: Thanks, Me In The Past
I love when you do/set up a little thing to make your life easier, forget about it, and then be pleasantly surprised when you go to do that task again.
Happy Birthday–June 13
Jim Mutrie (1851)
Bill Bergen (1878)
Gene Desautels (1907)
Mel Parnell (1922)
Dave Rosenfield (1931)
Tom Cheek (1939)
Marcel Lachemann (1941)
Antonio Pulido (1951)
Ernie Whitt (1952)
Darrell May (1972)
Pedro Strop (1985)
Jonathan Lucroy (1986)
Drew Smyly (1989)
James McCann (1990)
Jim Mutrie managed teams in New York for nine years. He has been called the founding father of baseball in New York City. He is the one who gave the Giants their nickname. The story is that whenever he was credited for the team's success, he would say, "It was my boys--my giants!--who did it."
Catcher Bill Bergen spent eleven seasons in the majors. He appeared in 947 games and had 3,028 at-bats. His lifetime stats are .170/.194/.201. Everything you read about him says he was a tremendous defensive catcher, and one assumes he must have been.
Dave Rosenfield was the general manager of the Tidewater/Norfolk Tides for over forty-five years.
Tom Cheek was the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays from 1977-2004.
Antonio Pulido was a closer in the Mexican League for many years, getting 197 saves. He also had 70 saves in the Mexican Pacific League.
We would like to wish a happy birthday to rpz.
2023 Summer Mix Nominations
Well, friends, it's about that time again. Toss your nominations below.
1. The theme is "Summer". You're free to interpret that as you'd like.
2. Put your nominations in a Spoiler box.
3. You may nominate up to 3 songs. Any further nominations will be ignored.
4. Unless we get an insane amount of nominations for some reason, everyone's first choice is automatically in. The rest of the mix will be filled out with the other nominations.
5. Like a Supreme Court justice and porn, I don't know the exact time when a song becomes too long to include, but I can tell you that 15 minutes is probably a bit too long...
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June 12, 2023: Simple Innovations
I just read about Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and how they can help to protect from the wildfire smoke. What a cool idea.
Mother Mother – Hayloft II
Let’s see if I remember how to do this. Plenty of fun “likes” added in Spotify since my last turn at the soundboard. Should be a good week.
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